书目名称 | Global Climate Change and Environmental Policy | 副标题 | Agriculture Perspect | 编辑 | V. Venkatramanan,Shachi Shah,Ram Prasad | 视频video | | 概述 | Emphasizes on the policy perspectives in agriculture in an era of global climate change.Highlights Sustainable Development Goals related to climate change and agriculture, Climate Smart Agriculture, c | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .Global climate change threatens human existence through its potential impact on agriculture and the environment. Agriculture is climate-sensitive, and climate variability and climate change have net negative impact on it. Additionally, the agricultural landscape is affected by monoculture and agro-biodiversity loss, soil fertility depletion and soil loss, competition from biofuel production, crop yield plateaus and invasive species. Nevertheless, the global agricultural production system has to meet the food demands from the growing human population, which is set to exceed 10 billion by 2050. ..This book discusses the impacts of climate change on agriculture, animal husbandry and rural livelihoods. Further, since agriculture, forestry and other land-use sectors contribute about 10–12 gigatonnes of CO.2.-equivalent per year, it argues that agricultural policy must dovetail adaptation and mitigation strategies to reduce greenhouse gases emissions. This calls fora reformative and disruptive agricultural strategy like climate-smart agriculture, which can operate at all spatio-temporal scales with few modifications. The book also redefines sustainable agriculture through the lens of cl | 出版日期 | Book 2020 | 关键词 | Climate Smart Agriculture; Environmental Policy; Global Climate Change; Global Food Policy; Mitigation a | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9570-3 | isbn_softcover | 978-981-13-9572-7 | isbn_ebook | 978-981-13-9570-3 | copyright | Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020 |
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